San Diego Union-Tribune Axed 112 Employees In The Latest Round Of Cuts

Yesterday’s massacre at the Union-Tribune finally has a body count: 112 jobs cut. From the Voice of San Diego:

It’s the sixth downsizing at the paper since 2006. The paper has shrunk from 1,422 employees then to less than 850 — more than a 40 percent reduction.
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According to a notice given to the laid-off newsroom employees, the layoffs came in departments across the newspaper, including circulation, finance, operations, and sales and marketing.

The highest profile employee to be laid off was Bob Kittle, editor of the newspaper’s editorial pages.

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